The JMAL Family 75g Adventure

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Originally Posted by Wy Renegade

Nice! You should definitely get a good blue glow out of that bulb selection. You might want to try a daylight bulb at a later time to improve you growth.

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Ahh. What kind? We are newbs and I really want to have as much growth as possible. Thanks!!

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Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm

Ohh man you are going to love those icecap leds. They make everything pop! Your bulb selection should be really nice. All though you may want to drop your actinic in favor of another blue+ down the line much more par

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Thanks man! It made everything pop in my living room. I debated on that but I don't know about par and what not. Can you school me a bit on it and what I should be looking for? Thanks

If I read it right you got 2 Blue + (beautiful color, tons of par compared to other comparable bulbs), 2 Aquablue Specials (These are day lights about 12k) a purple bulb for pop and an additional Actinic for more blue and pop. I think you should be all set. Curious to see what the ATI purple does.

Nice light!

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Originally Posted by JMALACHI

Thanks man! It made everything pop in my living room. I debated on that but I don't know about par and what not. Can you school me a bit on it and what I should be looking for? Thanks

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With actinics you get a nice "glow" to your corals but they dont have half the PAR of the blue+ IMO a waste of space. You are going to over power those actinics with the other lights you wont even see the benefit of the glow. The blue+ have plenty of the blue spectrum corals need to grow big and strong. I could understand if you were going to run the actinic as a dusk dawn effect but you have the icecap LEDs to do that (way better). IMO the added PAR of a blue+ will be more beneficial to you and your corals then the actinic bulb.

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Originally Posted by iyachtuxivm

With actinics you get a nice "glow" to your corals but they dont have half the PAR of the blue+ IMO a waste of space. You are going to over power those actinics with the other lights you wont even see the benefit of the glow. The blue+ have plenty of the blue spectrum corals need to grow big and strong. I could understand if you were going to run the actinic as a dusk dawn effect but you have the icecap LEDs to do that (way better). IMO the added PAR of a blue+ will be more beneficial to you and your corals then the actinic bulb.

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Thanks for the info. This will be a learning experience and since I have them already, I can only hope they will work well. We also plan on simulating dusk/dawn.

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Originally Posted by Sir Patrick

Nice light!

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Thanks Sir!!

So we finally got the tank in and it looks good. I'm a little nervous since they messed up twice but tomorrow I'll know if it's all good while I transfer everything over. Here are some pics.
http://tapa.tk/mu/43a3ad4c-345b-9dfb.jpg
http://tapa.tk/mu/43a3ad4c-3475-7725.jpg
This is the stand we got for it.
http://tapa.tk/mu/43a3ad4c-3493-3e8e.jpg

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Are the light going to be mounted with legs, or suspender over top with wires (or other device)?

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Originally Posted by Sir Patrick

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Are the light going to be mounted with legs, or suspender over top with wires (or other device)?

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We are going to suspend it over top of it but will mount it until we get to do that.